Article Business Week Magazine: a Samurai Reformer Inspires a Nation Adrift
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Article Business Week Magazine: A Samurai Reformer Inspires a Nation Adrift Born the son of a Samurai in 1835, Ryoma Sakamoto would rise to defeat the shogun empire who had kept the empire of Japan hidden from the world for 200 years until mid-1850’s. Little did Sakamoto know that he would be the face and voice to shape Japan to this day. Ryoma Sakamoto would go on to write his famous eight point plan for Imperial Restoration and Governance, which outlined plans to transform Japan into a constitutional monarchy, institute a foreign policy, and regulate trade. That formed the basis for the Charter Oath, the framework for Japan’s first constitution.
Today Japan is facing a failing economy with falling consumer prices, rising debt, and an aging population. Sound very familiar? Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan and most high ranking business executives are invoking the legacy of Rymoa Sakamoto, who helped modernize the nation’s government and economy. Just like our founding father did. Japan is getting back to their roots, the roots that met diversity and unimaginable hardships in the face and conquered them.
Japan is now realizing that their founding structure and laws that brought them this far have been manipulated over time do too many regulations and unjust laws. Japan’s present day fight to take back their country and reclaim their position in the world has just begun but because they have understanding that the building blocks of a great empire should never change through time. They are truly ahead of the game.
This article should also serve as warning to empires that stray from their roots. There is a large portion of the United States who has awoken to the facts that we the people have turned a blind eye for too long. We have let our own government manipulate our country’s building blocks and laws for too long. As a result we are facing the same if not worse crisis as the people of Japan. But who will be our
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Article Business Week Magazine: A Samurai Reformer Inspires a Nation Adrift Born the son of a Samurai in 1835, Ryoma Sakamoto would rise to defeat the shogun empire who had kept the empire of Japan hidden from the world for 200 years until mid-1850’s. Little did Sakamoto know that he would be the face and voice to shape Japan to this day. Ryoma Sakamoto would go on to write his famous eight point plan for Imperial Restoration and Governance, which outlined plans to transform Japan into a constitutional monarchy, institute a foreign policy, and regulate trade. That formed the basis for the Charter Oath, the framework for Japan’s first constitution.
Today Japan is facing a failing economy with falling consumer prices, rising debt, and an aging population. Sound very familiar? Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan and most high ranking business executives are invoking the legacy of Rymoa Sakamoto, who helped modernize the nation’s government and economy. Just like our founding father did. Japan is getting back to their roots, the roots that met diversity and unimaginable hardships in the face and conquered them.
Japan is now realizing that their founding structure and laws that brought them this far have been manipulated over time do too many regulations and unjust laws. Japan’s present day fight to take back their country and reclaim their position in the world has just begun but because they have understanding that the building blocks of a great empire should never change through time. They are truly ahead of the game.
This article should also serve as warning to empires that stray from their roots. There is a large portion of the United States who has awoken to the facts that we the people have turned a blind eye for too long. We have let our own government manipulate our country’s building blocks and laws for too long. As a result we are facing the same if not worse crisis as the people of Japan. But who will be our